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Drone attack: Security tightened around vital installations in Kashmir says IGP

Srinagar: Security has been strengthened around vital installations across Kashmir in view of the threat posed by possible drone attacks, valley’s top cop Vijay Kumar said on Tuesday. “Yesterday (Monday), the general officer commanding (of Chinar Corps) chaired a meeting which I attended. The security has been strengthened around vital installations and along the Line […]

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NIA takes over probe in Jammu airport drone attack

New Delhi/Jammu: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday took over the charge of investigation into the recent drone attack on the Indian Force station located at the Jammu airport, an official said. The decision to hand over the probe into the first-of-its-kind terror attack at the Indian Air Force station in the early hours of […]

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LeT suspected to be behind IAF station attack: DGP

Jammu/New Delhi: Banned Lashkar-e-Taiba militant outfit is suspected to have been behind the sensational drone attack on the Indian Air Force station in Jammu on Sunday morning with indication that the unmanned aerial vehicles had come from across the border, a top police official said on Tuesday. Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Dilbag […]

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Srinagar encounter ends: LeT commander, Pak militant killed

Srinagar: A day after his arrest, top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Nadeem Abrar and a Pakistani militant were killed in an encounter in Parimpora area of the city, police said on Tuesday. The two were gunned down by a police party in the early hours of Tuesday, they said. Giving details of the incident, a police […]

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Eastern Ladakh Row: Gen Rawat visits forward posts along LAC in central sector

New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat on Tuesday visited a number of forward locations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China around the Himachal Pradesh sector to take stock of India’s military preparedness in the sensitive region. In his interactions with troops, Gen Rawat exhorted them to remain steadfast in […]

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Right to life may be interpreted to include right to food: SC

Right to life may be interpreted to include right to food: SC

New Delhi: Taking note of basic global concept on food security, the Supreme Court Tuesday said in that the absence of explicit provision for it, the fundamental right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution may be interpreted to include the right to live with human dignity, having right to food and other basic […]

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ACB files charge sheet in Rs 1,100-crore loan fraud

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against 31 people including the managing director of an agro company and a J&K Bank official in a Rs 1,100-crore loan fraud. The charge sheet against REI Agro Limited MD Sandip Jhunjhunwala, head of J&K Bank’s Mahim branch Mohd Yousaf Bhat and […]

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JK conversion row: One of 4 Sikh women had approached HC for protection

Srinagar: One of the four Sikh women alleged to have been converted to Islam by force had approached the Jammu and Kashmir High Court seeking protection from any coercive action by her family and the police, saying she changed her religion and married a Muslim man willingly. Viran Pal Lour, who became Khadeeja after marrying […]

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Do you have faith in Indian judicial system, court tells Shabir Shah

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday asked Kashmiri separatist leader Shabbir Shah, arrested in a money laundering case, whether he has faith in the country’s judicial system and its Constitution. Special Judge Dharmender Rana put the queries to Shah’s lawyer during the hearing of his bail application. Ask your client if he has faith […]

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Dozen houses gutted in fire in JK village

Banihal/Jammu: At least a dozen houses were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Tuesday, officials said, adding no injuries were reported in the incident. It started in a house and spread to others in the densely populated Hijwa village of Khari, 28 […]